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Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is an inherited disorder
often characterized by varying degrees of hearing loss and changes
in skin and hair pigmentation. The syndrome got its name from a
Dutch eye doctor named Petrus Johannes Waardenburg who first
noticed that people with differently colored eyes often had a
hearing impairment. He went on to study over a thousand
individuals in deaf families and found that some of them had
certain physical characteristics in common. For more info click here |
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